Dhaka: Stakeholders in eye health on Tuesday reached a consensus on the need for an optometry council to expand eye care across the country and bring the service of ophthalmic personnel under regulation. The consensus was reached at a national dialogu…
Dhaka: The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, commemorating the birth and death of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), is being observed across the country on Wednesday with due religious reverence and solemnity. The day marks the 12th of Rabiul Awal of the Hijri ca…
Dhaka: The government has appointed 184 more doctors under the 48th BCS (Special). The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification to this end on Tuesday. Of these, 165 were appointed as assistant surgeons and 19 as assistant dental surgeo…
Dhaka: Eleven-year-old twin brothers Tanvir Hasan and Tafsir Hasan have officially joined “bdapps,” the country’s largest app store and developer platform, as its youngest developers. The sixth-grade students from Shariatpur learned coding and app dev…
Dhaka: The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has planned to purchase commodities worth around Tk 8,000 crore during the current fiscal year to stabilise the country’s essential commodity market amid a global supply chain crunch. The ma…
Chittagong: Despite Bangladesh’s legal triumph in securing expansive maritime resources, the anticipated economic benefits of this sea conquest have not materialized, stated Chittagong University (CU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor Dr. Mohammad Al-For…
Dhaka: The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Tuesday clarified a data discrepancy in its recent presentation on factory closures, saying the information was taken from a media report whose original source had not been verified.
According to United…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Jewellers Association (Bajus) has announced another increase in the price of gold in the domestic market, raising the rate by Tk 1,633 per bhori for 22-carat gold. With this change, the new price of 22-carat gold, including VAT, has …
Dhaka: For years, the Turag has been paying the price for Dhaka’s relentless urban expansion-its banks squeezed by encroachment, its water contaminated by industrial waste, and its natural flow disrupted by land filling. Now, the government is betting…